Inspiring Older Readers
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Flesh in the Age of Reason posted on 20 Sep 2021
It’s always a humbling privilege to read anything by the wonderful Roy Porter ...
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The Haunting of Hill House posted on 15 Sep 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Shirley Jackson's classic American Gothic horror story but finds it doesn't quite live up to its reputation.
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Fatherland posted on 13 Sep 2021
Published in 1992, Robert Harris’ breakthrough first novel has at its heart a quite conventional political thriller/detective
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The Siege posted on 07 Sep 2021
Albania has always been something of an enigma within Europe and is still seen as a bit of a puzzle....
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Life Among the Savages posted on 02 Sep 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Shirley Jackson's "slightly queasy, sinister ...account of the pressures....of raising four children."
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Max Carrados Mysteries posted on 29 Aug 2021
Ernest Bramah was the pen name of Ernest Brammah Smith (1868 – 1942), an intensely private man who was also a prolific and hugely successful author.
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Exile and the Kingdom posted on 25 Aug 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Albert Camus' only collection of short stories that are 'more akin to existentialist parables'
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The Book Collectors of Daraya posted on 22 Aug 2021
I still find it hard to really comprehend the way a series of small, peaceful but determined anti-government protests during 2011 in Damascus,
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Goodbye to Berlin posted on 16 Aug 2021
Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel depicting Weimar Germany in the years prior to the outbreak of World War...
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Weather posted on 10 Aug 2021
There was a lot of praise in the world of literary criticism for Jenny Offill’s 2014 novel, The Dept. of Speculation .....